UncleG

Let me get out my thick glasses.

Eduskator

Ford has been pushing hard on making more eco friendly engines in the last year. I highly doubt they'll invest in old obsolete technologies such as the N/A engines. Even the GT now comes with the 3.5TT

2020 is on the corner, hybrid & electric trucks are coming! My bet is on a new Ecoboost engine that will be more powerful & a little more fuel friendly.

xlttune

It would make the most sense to build off of the 6.2(boss) block, good bore spacing, keeping the 6.2 in the 250/350/450 and offering the new 7.3 in the 550/650/750/Motorhomes using everything but a different block to allow for a bigger bore plus more stroke, the heads in the stock castings offer plenty of flow for a 444cid motor. I'm pretty sure you are not going to see a turbo 7.0 or 7.3 for the new motor nor will you see a DOHC motor, not for the application at hand,if it was going into an F150 maybe so, could be wrong,only time will tell. I am curious to see what it will be!

Eric Kleven

If my numbers are close, stroke lengths for a Boss-block :

• 7.0 = 4.284"
• 7.3 = 4.46"

Do you really expect FoMoCo to put what is essentially a small-block V8 (c'mon, 4.015" bore is a Windsor/Cleveland block with a .015" overbore to make a nice round Metric number) out on the road with a Four-and-a-Half-inch stroke?
I could see the 7 liter being released into the wild for heavy trucks. The 7.3 might be pushing things a little bit too far. Deck height would have to be pushing 10-11" to get a decent rod/stroke ratio. No doubt the F550+ trucks could fit that under the hood, but that's just starting to get into weird dimensions in the engine, innit?

RLXXI

Maybe it'll be an exotic engine like the V8 they put in the SHO's 96-99 it was a Yamaha, I had one. That thing would get up and move, n/a DOHC 4v.
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FX4BullDog

my buddy had one from the late 80s. Manual transmission. That thing would move. We MAY have raced a few people in high school lol

RLXXI

Those had V6's but still Yamaha.
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surf4cars

Personally Own a 1st Gen Raptor 14 Bought it new. Nasty accident might total it 3 days ago. Only want a new one and will wait to see if the 19s do the 7.0 Want the V-8. Have driven the 6, dont like it. Not that much more power and crap fuel milage, just like the 6.2. Lots of VERIFIED problems with the eco-boost 6, being under reported, when its driven hard.

Chevy and Ram have an opening they should take if Ford can't see the market for the V-8 in the Raptor. Offer them both and let the market speak FORD

LOVE my Raptor, might buy it back salvage and fix it, if that happens. Mine was the only vehicle that was able to drive away from the 4 vehicle accident.

This guy wants Ford to build the 7.0 Most technical sites that follow trends not "bloggers and social media junkies" agree they will. Those who sold themselves on the 6 say it wont, but I would not bet on it.

OCMike

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surf4cars

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